The Hood Canal Integrated Watershed Plan

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What is the Integrated Watershed Plan?

The Integrated Watershed Plan (IWP) is a framework within which we can identify priorities, refine strategies, and make choices to achieve our common vision: “a future where Hood Canal residents and visitors benefit from and coexist sustainably with a healthy Hood Canal.”

Whose plan is it?

The Hood Canal Coordinating Council partnered with a diverse array of organizations, agencies, local governments, tribes, and citizens to produce this plan. HCCC’s board of elected officials has adopted the IWP as the guiding strategy for management of Hood Canal’s natural resources.

What does it mean to be integrated?

Hood Canal connects us. The quality of our environment, economy, community and individual wellbeing are entwined across its vast geography. This beautiful body of water nurtures our quality of life and is in turn impacted by our presence on its shores and uplands. The Integrated Watershed Plan (IWP) reflects those relationships by prioritizing actions we can take to benefit all of Hood Canal. The plan highlights how our natural resource management is integral to all facets of life in Hood Canal, and it identifies balanced solutions to long-standing problems across jurisdictions and neighboring watersheds.

Hood Canal is a social-ecological system whose community is closely tied to its natural resources. The graphic below illustrates those ties, and shows how the IWP addresses HCCC’s strategic focus areas.